Mail aliases help

[Poohba]

I added aliases to /etc/mail/aliases in the form of username	:
alias1,alias2,alias3.  I then did 'newaliases' and then i restarted
sendmail.  What else should I be doing?

[Les Mikesell]

Poohba wrote:
>  I added aliases to /etc/mail/aliases in the form of username	:
>  alias1,alias2,alias3.  I then did 'newaliases' and then i restarted
>  sendmail.  What else should I be doing? 
That should be all it takes for mail local to the machine.  Fedora 
doesn't accept outside email without a change to /etc/mail/sendmail.mc.

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   Les Mikesell
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In article <1180645929.28415.79.camel(a)rob-campbell.com&gt;,
Poohba  <fedora-list(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:

> I added aliases to /etc/mail/aliases in the form of username	:
> alias1,alias2,alias3.  I then did 'newaliases' and then i restarted
> sendmail.  What else should I be doing? 
You don't need to restart sendmail for changes to the aliases
file. Do you have sendmail setup completely? It doesn't come
configured for incoming email.

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[Poohba]

On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 23:21 +0000, Rick Ellis wrote:
>  In article <1180645929.28415.79.camel(a)rob-campbell.com&gt;,
>  Poohba  <fedora-list(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:
>  
>  >I added aliases to /etc/mail/aliases in the form of username	:
>  >alias1,alias2,alias3.  I then did 'newaliases' and then i restarted
>  >sendmail.  What else should I be doing?
>  
>  You don't need to restart sendmail for changes to the aliases
>  file. Do you have sendmail setup completely? It doesn't come
>  configured for incoming email.
>  
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>   
I get email and have been for years.  I am just trying to add an alias
now for the first time.

[Tony Nelson]

At 5:12 PM -0400 5/31/07, Poohba wrote:
> I added aliases to /etc/mail/aliases in the form of username	:
> alias1,alias2,alias3.  I then did 'newaliases' and then i restarted
> sendmail.  What else should I be doing? 
Look at /var/log/maillog and see what happens to mail to that user and sent
to the aliases.  If there isn't any, send some with the mail command:

    mail -s test username
    some text.
    Ctrl-D
    RETURN
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TonyN.:'                       <mailto:[e-mail]>
      '                              <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>

[Poohba]

On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 20:19 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote:
>  At 5:12 PM -0400 5/31/07, Poohba wrote:
>  >I added aliases to /etc/mail/aliases in the form of username	:
>  >alias1,alias2,alias3.  I then did 'newaliases' and then i restarted
>  >sendmail.  What else should I be doing?
>  
>  Look at /var/log/maillog and see what happens to mail to that user and sent
>  to the aliases.  If there isn't any, send some with the mail command:
>  
>      mail -s test username
>      some text.
>      Ctrl-D
>      RETURN
>  -- 
>  ____________________________________________________________________
>  TonyN.:'                       <mailto:[e-mail]>
>        '                              <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
>   
stat=User Unknown

[Les Mikesell]

Poohba wrote:
>  On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 20:19 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote:
> > At 5:12 PM -0400 5/31/07, Poohba wrote:
> >> I added aliases to /etc/mail/aliases in the form of username	:
> >> alias1,alias2,alias3.  I then did 'newaliases' and then i restarted
> >> sendmail.  What else should I be doing?
> > Look at /var/log/maillog and see what happens to mail to that user and sent
> > to the aliases.  If there isn't any, send some with the mail command:
> >
> >     mail -s test username
> >     some text.
> >     Ctrl-D
> >     RETURN
> > -- 
> > ____________________________________________________________________
> > TonyN.:'                       <mailto:[e-mail]>
> >       '                              <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
> >
>  stat=User Unknown
>   
Was the username an actual user on the machine or one in your alias file?

Also, when you ran the newaliases command did you see an error message 
or just the number of aliases processed?

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell(a)gmail.com

[Poohba]

On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 01:18 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
>  Poohba wrote:
>  > On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 20:19 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote:
>  >> At 5:12 PM -0400 5/31/07, Poohba wrote:
>  >>> I added aliases to /etc/mail/aliases in the form of username	:
>  >>> alias1,alias2,alias3.  I then did 'newaliases' and then i restarted
>  >>> sendmail.  What else should I be doing?
>  >> Look at /var/log/maillog and see what happens to mail to that user and sent
>  >> to the aliases.  If there isn't any, send some with the mail command:
>  >>
>  >>     mail -s test username
>  >>     some text.
>  >>     Ctrl-D
>  >>     RETURN
>  >> -- 
>  >> ____________________________________________________________________
>  >> TonyN.:'                       <mailto:[e-mail]>
>  >>       '                              <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
>  >>
>  > stat=User Unknown
>  > 
>  
>  Was the username an actual user on the machine or one in your alias file?
>  
>  Also, when you ran the newaliases command did you see an error message 
>  or just the number of aliases processed?
>  
>  -- 
>     Les Mikesell
>      lesmikesell(a)gmail.com
>   
The username is the actual user.  There were no errors with newaliases.
/etc/aliases: 81 aliases, longest 10 bytes, 830 bytes total